Question

Read the following graph and answer the following questions:

(i) Which region has the highest literacy rate? 

(ii) Which region has the lowest literacy rate? 

(iii) In which region does women fare better than men in literacy rate?

(iv) Write a concluding paragraph about the graph.

Answer 1

(i) Central Asia region has the highest literacy rate.

(ii) Sub-Saharan Africa region has the lowest literacy rate.

(iii) In no region does women fare better than men because in all the regions the graph shows literacy rate of men is higher than women.

(iv) The graph shows the percentage of literate male and female and total literacy rate of seven regions and the world. In all seven regions the highest literacy rate of both male and female is recorded in Central Asian region, whereas the lowest literacy rate of male and female is recorded in Sub-Saharan Africa.

In all seven regions and world too, male literacy rate is higher than female literacy rate.